Shirt-ironing board



Oct. 2 1923. 1,469,743

c. E. WAREAM ET Al.

SHIRT IHONING BOARD original Filed July 2, 1917 4 sheets-sheet 1 v if ys.

Oct. 2

C. E. WAREAM ET AL SHIRT IRONING BOARD Original Filed July 2, 1917 4 Sheets-Shea?, 2

Oct. 2 1923.

C. E. WAREAM ET AL SHIRT IRONING BOARD Original Filed July 2, 1917 4 Sheets-Sheet 3 Oct. 2 1923-.'

C. E; WAREAM ET AL SHIRT IRONING BOARD original Filed July 2,

1917 4 Sheets-Sheet 4 proved CHARLES E. Winsum, or CINCINNATI,- AND Dana H. BENJN, or CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, OHIO, ASSIGNORS TO THE AM EBICAN LAUNDRY '.RIACHIIIERYv COMPANY,

OF CINCINNATI, OHIO, A CORPORATION 0F OHIO. g

SHIRT-IRONING BOARD.

To all whom t my concern:

' Be it known that we, CHARLES EJWAREAM and DANA H. BENJAMIN, citizens of the United States, residing at Cincinnati, Hamilton County Ohio, and Clevelandv Heights, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, respectively, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shirt-Ironing Boards, of which the following is a specification.

This 1nvention relates to ironing machines, and more particularly to machines for ironing shirts.

The object of the invention is to provide an improved ironing machine embodying an ironing' board specially shaped to so iron the shirt that when folded up it will have the proper dress or' set up and when worn will fit properly. More especially the invention has for its object to provide an imironing board lthe ironing surface of which is convex at the neckband end, the side edges of said board diverging from the neckband end toward the tail end and the neckband end being provided with a back yoke receiving member the surface of which,

is in a vertical "lane or planes transverse to the length of tlie board and if desired inclined toa true transverse plane, all for the pu ose of more accurately fitting the board to t e shirt to improve its'appearance and avoid wrinkles or folds in the finished work. l

Further objects of the invention are in art obvious and in part will appear more 1n detail hereinafter.

The invention comprises the construction and arrangement of parts hereinafter describedand claimed.

In the drawings, Fig. 1 is a plan view of one form of ironing board embodying the invention; Fig. 2 is a cross section onthe line 2 2, Fig. 1, the upper pressing member or head being also shown in dotted lines; Fig. 3 .is a central longitudinal sectional elevation on the line 3 3, Fig. 2; Fig. 4 is a plan view, on a larger scale, of the neckband former; Fig. 5 is a detail cross section on the line 5 5, Fig. 1; Fig. 6 is a detail sectional elevation on the line 6 6, Fig. 3; and Figs. 7 and 8 are detail views, corresponding to Figs. 1 and 2, and showing modifications.

Serial No. 178,286. Divided and this application iiled March 21,.' 1921. Serial No. 454,212.

(Fig. 2) the surface 4of the board being correspondingly shaped, as'will be readily understood.

The shirt receiving board 5 is supported lby a hollow sleeve 6 which receives a post 7 dependin from the base 8 of the board frame. aid sleeve has a lateral extension 9 which is provided with an opening to receive a rod or bar 10 dependlng from the base 8 and which permits the board and post to be moved vertically relative to the head for ironing purposes, but without relative rotation between head and board, thereby preserving their necessary and usu ironing registration with each other.

The base 8 is provided with upright webs 11 which carry a block 12 attached to the under side of a longitudinal bar 13 lying in a. recess of the board beneath the padding 14 thereon. This bar extends from the tail end of the board to the neckband end thereof where it is provided with recesses to receive vertical pins 15 which pass upwardly through recesses in the stationary forward portion 16 of the neckband former. The

neckband former rises and falls on the pins with thev ironing motion, so as to allow the neckband former to sink with the padding when the ironing pressure is applied to the shirt, but the connection of the stationary member 16 of the neckband former to the bar 13 and its connection to the stationary block 12 prevent any horizontal motion of member 16 relative to the stationar?I frame of the ironing board. Consequent y when the shirt board is brought into ,registration with the ironing head the curve of the front portion of the neckband former must regis-,

ter properly with the recess inthe head. `1 Y The adjusting means for taking care of various sizes of shirts includes mechanism on. Said clamp for moving rearwardly the back portions of the neckband former. This arrangement maintains the folding line at the rear of the neckband former substantially tangent to the curve of the neckbandlr former. 'llhe shirt board indicated at 17, Fig. 3, is attac-hed to and carriedv by a frame 18 having side walls 19 and a base 20 which slides longitudinally in the direction of the length of base 8 (see Fig. 6). At one end said board carries a back yoke receiving form 21 from which rises a plate having a he-ad 22 provided with a recess to receive a trans.- versely extending rod 23 the ends of which enter openings in the back portions 24 of the neckband form-er. Said back portions are attac-hed to pins or rods 25 which enter horizontal openings in the stationary portion 16, said openings diverging backwardly as shown in Fig. 4. When the frame 18 with the attached board 17 is moved 'rearwardly the rod 23 is carried back and moves with it the adjustable rear portions 24 of the neckband former, .said portions moving diagonally as indicated in the dot and dash lines, Fig. 4.

The back yoke receiving form may be heated Iin any suitable manner, such as by conductionof electric current'through leads 26 to a suitable electric heating element 27.

In this machine the shirt is pressed upon the board with the tails diverging. rllhe neckband is preferably unbuttoned, its edges merely meeting or abutting. To clamp the ends of the neckband we provide aclamping member 28 having a body portion sliding in a recess 29 of member 16 and a flange- 30 depending in front of the neckband former and adapted to clamp the neckband theremember is pivoted to a rod 31 so as to have slight horizontal tilting motion relative thereto to accommodate itself to variations of thickness of the neckband. Rod 31 extends rearwardly through au opening in an. L-shaped locking member and then through an opening in `an upwardly extending portion of a member 34 slid-able longitudinally beneath the' neckband former and provided with a recess 35 to receive the loweredge of member 33. A light compression spring 36 located behind member 33, tends to press it forward or to the right in Fig. 3. The opening in member 33 through which the rod 31 passes is slightlyiarger than said when the vertical portion o-f member 33 assumes an askew position under the pressure of spring 36 member 33 grips the rod and prevents it from moving forwardly. However, pressure applied by the fingers to the clamping member 28 will push it backwardly into light clamping positionv and at any time the clamp can be released by pressing down upon the horizontal portion of the member 33.

memes To secure a more powerful clamping action of member 28 the member 34 is pivotally connected to the upper arm of a lever y 37 the pivot 38 of which has vertical mo-v tion in ried by the bar 13 and attached thereto by the pins 15 (Fig. 5). rlhe lower arm of said lever is connected to a rod 40 normally moved rearwardly by a compression spring 4-1 and which is actuated sion spring 42 by a lever 43 pivoted at 44 on a shaft journalled in 'the stationary frame members 11. IThe actuating means, for rod 40 is as follows: 1

45 is the actuating is secured to turn with a shaft 46 carrying a cam 47 and co-operatingwith an antifriction member 48 on the lower arm of lever 43, and a gear segment 49 meshing with a gear segment 50 on a with an arm 52 carrying a roller 53. Roller 53 travels with lost motion between an abutment 54 on a bar 54a extending across between walls 19 and an opposing abutment 55 on the movable fra has a laterally extending pin 56 which engages a depending arm 57 of a lever pivoted on a shaft 58 and having an arm 59 provided with a roller 60 lying beneath 'the horizon-'tal arm 61 of a latch leve has a depending arm 62 toe 63 lying at one side of through guiding openings provided with a The toe 63 lies in front of a locking member 65 which has an opening through which the rod 64 passes and which is under the influence of a spring 66.`

Fig. 3 shows the press in position ready to receive a shirt, the neckband former being contracted. 'The shirt is dressed upon the board with the neckband surrounding the lneckband former 'and the clamp 28 is pushed back into clampingengagement with:

Vthe neckband. Actuating lever 45 is then raised or turned in the counter-clockwise diy rection, Fig. 3. The first effect of the lever 1s to move roller`53 away from abutment 54/XJ and .pin 56 away from the lever arm 57.V

a slot in a stationary bracket 39 carl 70 through a compreshandle or lever which shaft 51 provided 85 me 18. Arm 52 also 90 Said latch lever rod 64 extending in the stationary `frame member 8 and attached to bar 54a.

This fal'lows'arm 59 to drop, which in turn im releases lever'61 and allows the toe 63 to move away from the `spring pressed latch 65. At the same time cam 47 Iengages the roller 48 and oscillates lever 43 in the clockwise direction, thereby pulling on the rod 40 andmoving backv member 34 which carries with it rod 31 and applies powerful clamping pressure to 'the neckband clamp, said pressure however being limited to the pressure of spring 42. Finally the lost momi tion. of roller 53 is completed and said roller engages abutment 55, whereupon further motion of the operative member moves back the movable frame 18 and'with it the board 17, the back yoke receiving form 21, and mi the back portions of the neckband former, thereby expanding said former within the neckband.

After the shirt has been pressed by relative vertical motion between the ironing board and pressing head the operating lever 45 is returned to its initial or normal position. The yfirst motion of said lever produces lost motion or travel of arm 52 until pin 56 meets lever arm 57 which applies the toe 63 to the latch 65 and releases the rod 64. Further motion of said lever 45 moves the abutment 54 and 54a to the right with correspondin movable frame 18 and re eases or contracts the neckband former. .Finally the cam 47 yreturns yto initial position and releases vthe powerful pressure upon the vneckband cla-mp and after full release of said clamp by pressing down upon the lock '33 the shirt can be removed from the board.

The ironing board may be of either of the forms shown in Figs. 1 and 2 or 7 and 8, and in either case should preferably be of what is known as the Keystone type. In

. other words, its si'de edges .67 'diverge from tions of the back yoke receiving form,

' form.

the neckband end of the board toward the tail end, fas a consequence of which theI shirt is dressed lupon the Lboardwith the tails spread and with the button and button-hole stri divergig.- Also the Aupper or padded sur ace of the 'board is convex transversely, at least at the neckband. end, the ironing head having `either' 'a convex surface on a rounded curve, as shown in Fig. 8, or preferably its upper surface slopes laterally vland downwardly towardeach side from its longitudinal center line, as shown in Fig. 2.

The back yoke receiving form 21 is a metal plate -lyinlg in substantially a. vertical plane and" extending across the full width of the shirt board. This plate may be truly transverse or may have its side portions inclined to a true transverse plane. For example, in Fig. 7, the planesof the side ptr- 1n 1- cated at A68, are inclined backwardly from the center of the board, whereas in Fig. 1 the side' portions indicated at 68, are inclined forwardl When t e board is convex as def scribed, the lower lsurface of the neckband former where it rests upon the padding, as

' at 69, is concaved 'to correspond. The lower portion of-the form 21 has a projection 7() which rides upon an adjacent stationary bracket member 7l to strengthen the form 21 against the -pressureof the co-operating back yoke ironer, regardless of vertical movement of the back yoke lreceiving form.

The ladvantages of the invention are as follows:

The desirability of -inclinin'g' the slide edges of the board to fKeystone form is well understood and enables the shirt to be edges of which is the preferable` this fullness, even when the side portions of the form are in planes inclined backwardly, as in Fig. 7. However, we have found that by bulging the board especially at the neckband end, all of this l,undesirable fullness to may -be avoided and nevertheless the Keystone form may be retained and the back yoke receiving member can not only be in a vertical plane or planes but even in planes inclined' forwardly, as in Fig. 1, so that the,

back yoke is ironed flat and the folding line at the end edge of the board retains the desirable slope to either side. IThe entire larrangement; enables the shirt to be so ironed that it will lie flat and lwithout wrinkles or folds when folded up and has the proper dress orvset up vand at thesame time lits Well whenputon.

What weiclaim is:

1. In an 1ron1ng machine, an ironing board having a bosom rceivin surface slop-l ing 4laterally in both directlons from its middle line vin the region of its neckband, said board being sufliciently' wide at the tail end and sufficiently narrow at the neckband end to support vthe side portions of the bosomsof various size shirts with the tails spread in diverging form from the neck-- band toward the tail end of the shirt, whereby those ortions of the shirt adjacent to and at the s i es of the neckband may be ironed smooth I`and without wrinkles.

2. In an ironing machine, van ironing board having a bosom receiving slopingl aterally in both directions from its middle line in the region of its neckband, the side said board diverging from the neckband end toward they tail end of the board so as to support the side bosom portions of the shirt when arranged in ldiverg .;ing form from the neckband to the tail end of the shirt.- and with those portions of the shirt' -adj acent to and at the sides of the 'neckban in smooth unwrinkled form. l

3. In an lroning machine, an ironing lboard having a bosom receiving surfacev `sloping laterally in both directions from its middle line in the region of its neckband, and a back yoke receivin and ironing form at one end of said boar having a vertical. p plane surface extending transversely to the middle line in the region of its neckband,

osom receiving surface' A and a back yoke receiving and ironing form at one end of said board having a vertical plane surface extending transversely to the length of said board, the side edges of said board diverging from the neckband end to- Wards the tail end so as to support the bosom portions of the shirt when arranged in diverging form from the neckband to the tail end of the shirt.

5. In an ironing machine, an ironing board having a bosom receiving surface sloping laterally in both directions from its middle line in the region of its neckband, and a back yoke receiving and ironing form at vone endof said board, the central portion of the surface ,of said back yoke receiving form lying in a transversely extending vertical plane, and the side portions of the surface of said back yoke receiving form lying in vertical planes inclined to the plane of the central portion thereof.

6. lln an ironing cmachine, an ironing board having a loos'om` receiving surface sloping laterally in both directions from its middle line in the region of its neckband,

and a back yoke' receiving form at one end of said board, the central portion of the surface of said back yoke receiving and ironing form lying in a transversely eX- tending vertical plane, and the side portions of the surface of said back yoke receiving forni lying in vertical planes inclined to the plane'of the central portion thereof, the side edges of said board diverging from the neckband end towards the tail end, so as to support the bosom portions of vthe shirt when arranged in diverging form from the neckband to the tail end of the shirt lln an ironing machine, an ironing board having a bosom receiving surface sloping laterally in both directions from its middle line in the region of its neckband, and a back yoke receiving and ironing form at one end of said board, the central portion of the surface voi: said back yoke receiving form lying in a transversely extending vertical plane, and the side portions of the surface of said back yoke receiving form lying in vertical planes inclined to the plane of the central portion thereof and also inclined outwardly away from the tail end of the board. y

lln testimony whereof We hereby'ax our signatures.

' CHARLES E. WAREAM. DANA H. BENJAMN 

